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St Budeaux

St Budeaux

Kings Tamerton

Devon

Re-used C13/C14 features to tower, rebuilt 1563 on site given by Richard Budockshead

Architectural Features

FITTINGS: 1876 by James Hine, the pews with square ends and V-jointed boards and octagonal oak pulpit with quatrefoils.

MONUMENTS: Roger Budockshead and family and Sir William Gorges and family, 1600

marble and slate 2-panel pilastered chest tomb with slate top and Baroque backplate surmounted by coat of arms with segmental arch on Tuscan columns to John Fownes who died 1669

a cartouche with drapery to Lewis Stanley who died in 1693, another to Charles Fortesque, a Corinthian freestone and marble aedicule, both with angels' heads

2 floor slabs: one to Richard Trevail, died 1665, the other dated 1648.

HISTORY: Sir Francis Drake was married here in 1569.